Nearly a year ago, then-US President Donald Trump notoriously conducted a photoshoot with a Bible in front of St. John s Church in Washington, DC, while authorities.
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Yet Another Media Tale Trump Tear-Gassed Protesters For a Church Photo Op Collapses Posted by Curt on 9 June, 2021 at 1:17 pm. 1 comment.
by Glenn Greenwald
For more than a year, it has been consecrated media fact that former President Donald Trump and his White House, on June 1 of last year, directed the U.S. Park Police to use tear gas against peaceful Lafayette Park protesters, all to enable a Trump photo-op in front of St. John’s Church. That this happened was never presented as a possibility or likelihood but as indisputable truth. And it provoked weeks of unmitigated media outrage, presented as one of the most egregious assaults on the democratic order in decades.
An internal government investigation has determined that the decision to forcibly clear racial justice protesters from an area in front of the White House last summer was not influenced by then-President Donald Trump's plan to stage a Bible-toting photo opportunity at that spot.
police brutally cracked down on protesters near the White House last year was so that
President Donald Trump could pose for photos nearby with a Bible.
Map of Washington included in an inspector general’s report shows Lafayette Square separating the White House, to the south, from St. John’s Church on the northern side. (Image via Courthouse News)
WASHINGTON (CN) An inspector general for the Interior Department appointed to his position by former President Donald Trump issued a report Wednesday that exonerates Trump in connection to the use of chemical weapons at a protest last year.
It is undisputed that Trump marched through the park known as Lafayette Square on June 1, shortly after authorities cleared the protesters who had been peacefully demonstrating there. Days earlier, George Floyd had been murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, and Washington was one of countless cities around the world overtaken by protesters in the aftermath. On June 1, standing outside a